Data underlying the publication: Long-term infrasonic monitoring of land and marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland

doi: 10.4121/19390835.v1
The doi above is for this specific version of this dataset, which is currently the latest. Newer versions may be published in the future. For a link that will always point to the latest version, please use
doi: 10.4121/19390835
Datacite citation style:
Läslo Evers (2022): Data underlying the publication: Long-term infrasonic monitoring of land and marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/19390835.v1
Other citation styles (APA, Harvard, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, IEEE) available at Datacite
Dataset
Delft University of Technology logo
usage stats
820
views
221
downloads
categories
geolocation
Qaanaaq (Greenland)
lat (N): 77.47556
lon (E): -69.28776
view on openstreetmap
time coverage
2004-2021
licence
cc-0.png logo CC0
Number of infrasonic detections per day for 2004-2021 for four glaciers surrounding Qaanaaq (Greenland). The observations, data processing and interpretation are described in Evers et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 2022.
A period of 18 years of infrasonic recordings was analyzed from a microbarometer array (I18DK) in northwestern Greenland, near Qaanaaq. A huge number of infrasonic detections, over 700,000, have been made in I18DKs soundscape during the Arctic summers. Simultaneously identified were both calving events from marine-terminating glaciers and discharge related acoustics from a land-terminating glacier. This infrasonic activity is correlated to sea-surface and atmospheric temperature, respectively. Inter-yearly to daily variations were retrieved showing a strong variability in infrasonic detection rates and hence glacier activity. The highest number of infrasonic detections were found in recent years from the land-terminating glacier. The latter is supported by actual discharge measurements and partly by a discharge model. It is concluded that monitoring infrasound from glaciers can complement other techniques to remotely and passively get insights into glacier dynamics with high temporal and spatial resolution.
history
  • 2022-04-01 first online, published, posted
publisher
4TU.ResearchData
format
ASCII txt file
funding
  • VIDI project from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), project 864.14.005
  • Probing the changing deep oceans and upper atmosphere with seismo-acoustic waves (grant code 864.14.005) [more info...] Dutch Research Council
organizations
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
TU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosiences, Department of Geoscience & Engineering

DATA

files (2)